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Author Name: Catherine Merlo, AgWeb The new, high-tech system can milk herds of up to 4,500 cows – and all it takes is one human. If you’re a large-herd dairy owner who thought robotic milking would never work for your operation, you’re...

I'm very pleased to say that our drainage demonstration went very well, with higher than expected numbers and a lot of questions. The weather so kind to us, even if it was cold in the wind. All told the even was a success and show the interest people...

Author Name: John Upton, Climate Central Humanity is about to experience a historically unprecedented spike in temperatures. That’s the ominous conclusion of a vast and growing body of research that links sweeping Pacific Ocean cycles with rates...

Author Name: Science Daily Sewage sludge, green waste, production residue from the food industry, straw or animal excrement -- with the biobattery's modular concept a much larger range of biomass can be utilized for energy recovery than previously...

Author Name: Science Daily Colorado potato beetles are a dreaded pest of potatoes all over the world. Since they do not have natural enemies in most potato producing regions, farmers try to control them with pesticides. However, this strategy is often...

Author Name: AoB Plants require nitrogen to make proteins, nucleic acids and other biological molecules. It is widely accepted that plants absorb inorganic forms of nitrogen to fill their needs. However, recently it has become clear that plants also have...

Author Name: Mark Fischetti blog, Scientific American Let’s be clear: The planet is still getting hotter. The so-called pause, or hiatus, in global warming means the rate of temperature rise has slowed. The average global temperature is still going...

Author Name: Bangor University Researchers from Bangor University and the Thünen Institute in Germany have concluded that crop-biogas and liquid biofuels are at best inefficient options for greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation, per hectare of land used...

Author Name: Science Daily We make hundreds, possibly thousands, of decisions each day without having full knowledge of what will happen next. Life is unpredictable, and we move forward the best we can despite not knowing every detail.
It's no different...

Author Name: Science Daily When exposed to nitrogen fertilizer over a period of years, nitrogen-fixing bacteria called rhizobia evolve to become less beneficial to legumes -- the plants they normally serve, researchers report in a new study. read more...

Author Name: SE Roques and PM Berry in the Journal of Agricultural Science via ADAS Eight winter oilseed rape and two spring oilseed rape field experiments were performed in the UK in harvest years 2009–12. Each experiment consisted of at least...

Author Name: PM Berry et al in Euphytica via ADAS The relationship between crop height and yield is complex with genes and genetic markers for greater height associated with both increases and decreases in yield. As a result of this the optimum height...

Author Name: Mabon Elis, John Innes Centre A report is calling for the equivalent of NICE – the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence – for developments in crop technologies. The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee...

Author Name: AFBI, Northern Ireland A research project recently completed by the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) has reported for the first time the activity of different wildlife species at night in farmyards in Northern Ireland. The results...

Author Name: John Innes Centre Plant geneticists from Norwich’s John Innes Centre working with experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have uncovered how the memory of cold, so important for flowering, is erased every generation in plants....

Author Name: European Commission Research and Innovation Researchers have developed an automated prototype to help farmers monitor and control the amount of water and fertiliser they need for their crops. It has already been successfully tested on 25...

Author Name: Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief Scientists will soon be able to forecast climate change more accurately, according to new research. Projections of future temperature rely on estimates of how sensitive the Earth's climate is to rising...

Author Name: Lanyon Bowdler Legal firm Lanyon Bowdler, which has offices in Shropshire and Herefordshire and specialises in agricultural law, has put together a new in-depth industry report into how women are driving the agricultural sector forward. read...

Author Name: Science Daily A study involving Kansas State University researchers finds that in the coming decades at least one-quarter of the world's wheat production will be lost to extreme weather from climate change if no adaptive measures are...

Author Name: Science Daily New diagnostic tests are needed to make vaccination against bovine tuberculosis viable and the number of false positives from these tests must be below 15 out of every 10,000 cattle tested, according to research. read more Read...

Author Name: Science Daily Genetically modified crops have long drawn fire from opponents worried about potential contamination of conventional crops and other plants. Now a plant gene discovered by University of Guelph scientists might help farmers reduce...